From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 12:15:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA10951 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.lm.com [192.231.221.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10946 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peterb@localhost) by ivory.lm.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA10872; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:03 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Berger X-Sender: peterb@ivory.lm.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ProcFS Message-ID: X-Mentos: The Freshmaker! X-Request-Do: resolve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk What is Procfs, and do I care? If I'm not examining the state of processes by hand, does it offer any performance improvement? Why should I keep this configured into a kernel? pete. "The law locks up both man and woman/Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater felon loose/Who steals the common from the goose." -anon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Berger - peterb@telerama.lm.com - http://www.lm.com/~peterb